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Toward Greater Legitimacy: Online Accountability Practices of Ukrainian Nonprofits

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences, 2023
This exploratory study examined recent innovations in online accountability practices adopted by Ukrainian nonprofits. A quantitative content analysis of Ukrainian nonprofit websites evaluated their adoption of online accountability practices across five
Asya Cooley
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Using Self-Assessments to Improve Board Performance and Build Nonprofit Capacity

open access: yesJournal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2023
This paper presents the nonprofit board self-assessment tool as a valuable, formative addition to the toolkit of nonprofit stakeholders, including evaluators, who are focused on improving both board and organizational performance.
Joanne G. Carman, Judith L. Millesen
doaj   +1 more source

Social Impact Bonds and the Perils of Aligned Interests

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences, 2017
Social impact bonds (SIBs) have been welcomed enthusiastically as a new funding tool for social innovation, yet also condemned as an instrument that neglects beneficiaries’ and taxpayers’ interests, opening profit opportunities in the field of social ...
Florentine Maier, Michael Meyer
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Quality Assurance Translated? Comparing Nonprofit Evaluation Practices in Germany and the United States

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2023
This article presents findings from a study of management practice in youth career assistance nonprofits in Germany and the United States, focusing on the area of evaluation.
Karl Urban
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Risk Categories and Risk Management Processes in Nonprofit Organizations

open access: yesFoundations of Management, 2016
The article addresses risk management in nonprofit organizations. This topical issue appears not to have been adequately studied by researchers to date. There are several questions the author of this paper attempts to answer: What are the risk categories
Domański Jarosław
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Relationally Embedded Network Ties in Resource Acquisition of British Nonprofit Organizations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
As nonprofit and charity organizations face increasing competition, there have been growing interests in how nonprofit organizations conduct commercial activities to raise funds as well as grow their business.
Chih-Yao Gordon Liu   +7 more
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Nonprofit Economic Development Organizations and the Institutional Arrangement of Local Economic Development

open access: yesJournal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2018
In the United States, local economic development is increasingly being managed by nonprofit organizations. However, the institutional arrangement of local economic development is an understudied topic in the scholarly literature on nonprofit management ...
William Hatcher, Augustine Hammond
doaj   +1 more source

Getting Past “Purposeful”: Exploring Dimensionality in Nonprofit Executive Performance Information Use

open access: yesJournal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2020
Although performance information use (PIU) among public managers is a growing and increasingly relevant research area, the existing evidence base has two significant limitations for those interested in its application to nonprofit executives.
Clare FitzGerald
doaj   +1 more source

The The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in the Co-Production of Welfare Services: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesJournal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2023
This review studies previous research on the role of nonprofit organizations in the co-production of welfare services. The need for the review stems from the lack of systematic literature reviews related to nonprofit organizations, co-production, and ...
Ola Segnestam Larsson
doaj   +1 more source

Looking at nonprofit board performance through the lens of gendered leadership [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This record is for a(n) postprint of an article published by Wiley in Nonprofit Management and Leadership on 2020-01-01.Despite an active stream of “good governance” research, there is not yet much nonprofit scholarship examining how the gender ...
Gazley, Beth   +2 more
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